Mourning our Dead

Mourning our Dead

Tito Marques Palmeiro

Two global events took place in the transition from 2019 to 2020: the pandemic of COVID-19 and a profusion of texts about it. This article is part of the current effort to understand the pandemic, but it enquires likewise how one may address its unique event among us. In Brazil, more than in any other country, the pandemic was subordinated to politics. This text follows another path that can be summarized in two questions addressed to its possible readers: does the possibility of mourning our dead depend on something as unexpected as written texts? Could it be that in order to honor them, the distance yielded by poetry would be more meaningful than the immediacy of politics?

2020

10.32334/oqnfp.2020n46a735

Biotemas

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Philosophy (General), Speculative philosophy